Matinée im Burgtheater, March 17th, 2024
Ensemble-members of the Vienna Burgtheater – Annamária Láng, Tobias Moretti, Martin Schwab und Marie-Luise Stockinger – present excerpts from literary texts by contemporary authors of eight European countries which were part of two studies (2019, 2022) on authoritarian attitudes and democracy. The results of the latter study (2022) – a survey on views on national history, democracy and its principles, and authoritarianism in their respective conutries and Europe at large – will be presented, followed by an expert panel discussion.
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (France)
Sabine Gruber (Italy)
Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
Dorota Masłowska (Poland)
Terézia Mora (Hungary)
Kathrin Röggla (Germany)
Antonia Scurati (Italy)
Gerhild Steinbuch (Austria)
Tena Štivičić (UK)
Panel discussion: Misha Glenny (Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM), Cathrin Kahlweit (Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung for Central- and Eastern Europe, Political Scientist), Sylvia Kritzinger (Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna) and Oliver Rathkolb (Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, and Chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts, VICCA)
Moderated by Markus Müller-Schinwald (Ö1)
pdf (in German, English version to be published in autumn 2024)
Media Coverage
In cooperation with the Burgtheater and the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna
Sponsors:
Alfred Landecker Foundation Berlin; Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt/Main, Association for the Academic Reappraisal of Contemporary History; Culture Department of the City of Vienna; National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, and Zukunftsfonds.